Things To Do - Deadline Extended

I have sadly not got everything done by the deadline I had set myself, so I am going to extend it until the end of the term in order for me to get it all on the blog.

New Deadline: 21st December

Digipak - Name of Artist and Album

(This was originally done back in October, but have only noticed now that it wasn't published)

For my digipak (and for the video as well), I am going to need to come up with a name for my artist or band. I made a questionnaire in which I asked for a few ideas for band names, aand also for a name for the album.

After asking around, the best name for the band (in my opinion) that I was given was Columbia. After a bit of research I found that Columbia (not Colombia, the country) was not only a city in South Carolina and the Space Shuttle that tragically blew up in 2003, but it is actually the name of a song by the Britpop group Oasis. This creates a great link, as the genre of music is what my chosen song is.

For the album name, I decided, after looking through various possible names without any luck, I decided to make my album self-titled, therefore calling it Columbia.

Band: Columbia
Album: Columbia

Digipak - Insert Designs

After doing the front cover for my digipak, I decided to look into the designs for the Insert for my digipak. Here are some of the designs I looked at:

Digipak Front Cover Draft

Drafting for Digipak

I have begun the drafting for my digipak and will upload it in due time.

Digipak Front Cover Idea

After looking through various digipaks (as shown previously), I have begun looking at different ideas for MY digipak.

 

I asked around a few of the students into what I should call my digipak/album, and I decided that, even though I had been given many ideas (most of them sensible), I was not going to have the title of the album on my front or back cover of the digipak. This is a common theme through albums, but you do see it often in alternative albums, mostly older ones.

Duie to this, I have been looking at other album covers outside of the 1990s, mainly ones from the late 1980s, artists such as The Smiths, The Stone Roses and U2 among others, in order to gain inspiration and tritle-less covers.

 

The album cover that has most attracted my attention is Achtung Baby by U2 (1991). The use of 16 different images, only three of those eluding any idea of who the band is, creates a great effect, wherein which the band's identity and the genre of the music are contained within the contrasting imagery. Other things, such as that the title of the album does not appear, and that the colours are quite dark, with bits of white spread across to contrast.

Storyboard - First Minute 30

Over half term, I used the time I had when I wasnt filming to help create my storyboard. Here is the first minute 30 seconds: